Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae): 241 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Panicum maximum Jacq. legitimate

Green, J.W. (20 June 1988), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 6: 3, 4 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Panicum maximum Jacq. legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 194 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Panicum maximum Jacq. legitimate

Simon, B.K. (1990), A Key to Australian Grasses: 33 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Panicum maximum Jacq. legitimate

Macfarlane, T.D. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Urochloa. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1240 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Panicum maximum Jacq. legitimate common name: Guinea grass [n/a]

Simon, B.K. & Jacobs, S.W.L. (3 December 2003), Megathyrsus, a new generic name for Panicum subgenus Megathyrsus. Austrobaileya 6(3): 572 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Megathyrsus maximus (Jacq.) B.K.Simon & S.W.L.Jacobs legitimate

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